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How to recreate a Stirling

Posted by Cees Broere on Thu Oct 18, 2001 09:38:26 AM

Hi all,

I posted a similar topic some months earlier but it got lost when the WWW/VA forum F.T.R, and I never was able to see the reactions on the forum.

Eversince I got interested in warbirds (I was sixteen then now some nineteen years ago) , I wondered why there are no complete Stirlings.

Nowadays there are several organisations planning to restore/recover/reconstruct a Short Stirling. Over the years I have been very interested in news about Stirling recoveries or finds of parts. IMHO it should be possible to combine available parts/sections etc.into one serious rebuild if the various organisations would cooperate.

I would suggest the following:

The Stirling Project is busy recreating the drawings in order to be able to reconstruct a cockpitsection.

Why not mate this to the large fuselagesections (incorporating the midfuselagesection in store at the RAFM) found last year in France and fit the tailsection (ex-Mickle Fell) also in store at the RAFM.

Using the tailwheelassembly now under restoration with the Stirling Project or the ex-RNethAF recovered assembly in store at the RAFM (ex-BF353 if memory serves me right).

Adding the tailfin and stabilizers in store at the RAFM (also ex-Mickle Fell).

In this way a fuselage is created.

Now how about utilising the Sunderland wings (hopefully still) to be found on a remote island near New Zealand (as once published in FlyPast). If needed these could hopefully be modified to Stirling specification and mounted on the landinggearassemblies and wheels with the Stirling project.

In effect you get the same type of reconstruction as YAM did with their Halifax and why not? All you need is a lot of cooperation and hard work.

Any more suggestions or should I keep on dreaming?

Cees

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